About The Author

Priscilla Douglas is well known by top executives as a skilled adviser and
coach. Priscilla coaches individuals en route to the C-suite and executives in
the C-suite to be more skillful at working collaboratively and strategically.
She helps advance leadership skills for major clients in financial services,
biotech, government, higher education, architecture and defense.

Priscilla's ability to help others unlock higher leadership value can be
attributed, quite simply, to the fact that Priscilla is a leader herself.
Earning her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in four
years and being elected class marshal Her professional career
includes key executive positions in government, academics and business where
she was often the first woman and the first African American.

Priscilla has worked with over one thousand individuals and teams in
healthcare, financial services, technology, manufacturing and government. She
brings over thirty years of real world experience and thought leadership from
the public and private sectors to client engagements. She knows how to walk the
talk and readily shares her insights in a practical way to help her
clients.

A much sought-after public speaker, Douglas has keynoted conferences around
the globe and has presented at the prestigious Aspen Institute, Club of Rome
and in forums in Singapore, Australia, South Africa, Japan, and beyond. She is
also on the faculty of the International Women's Forum (IWF), offering executive
development seminars to its global business partners. Douglas currently serves
on the Board of Directors for Leader Bank, the John Adams Institute, Landmarks
Orchestra, Northeastern University, and the Boston Museum of Science, and she
has been elected by her peers to serve on the White House Fellows Alumni
Association.